According to the press service of the Uzbekistan Railways, the ceremony of departure of a container block train on the new Langfan - Kashgar - Irkeshtam - Osh - Tashkent multimodal route took place today, on July 4.
The pilot train departed from Langfan (China) with 41 wagons loaded with building materials.
The entire distance is about 6,000 kilometers, and the total weight of the cargo is over 1,000 tons. Estimated travel time is about 12 days. Currently, this route (overland) is the shortest and fastest for the delivery of goods from China to Uzbekistan.
Transportation along the new multimodal corridor will be carried out from the point of departure by rail to Kashgar station (China). Further, with transshipment, by road transport, the goods will be delivered to the Osh railway station (Kyrgyzstan).
From the Osh station to Tashkent, the goods will be delivered by rail on a freight train.
